"The Vagabonds"

[Bigdog57]

I found this interesting little article, detailing the early car & tent camping trips by Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs.
They took a 'Lincoln Kitchen Truck' and other trucks to carry the gear, but used mainly tents for themselves.
Looks like a major expedition - but I'll bet the old boy's really loved it!

http://www.henryfordestate.org/vagabonds.htm

And here is an article on the only known surviving 1937 Ford Housecar - an early RV. It was still in use when this article was written in 2001! A very cool old vehicle!

http://www.gtamarketing.com/1937FordHousecar.html

[surmisez]

What a great article! Thanks for sharing!

[tplife]

Great! And of course, Ford brought the charcoal - kingsFORD charcoal, made using Stafford's patent and with wood scraps from Ford sawmills around Iron Mountain, Michigan. E.G. Kingsford was a distant Ford relative and onetime manager of the charcoal plant. Ford and Edison had summer homes in Ft. Myers, Florida where you can view more of this material. I have visited the homes/museums in Ft. Myers. As a career chemist myself, Edison's chemistry lab was very humbling and left me in tears.

[Christn2000]

That would be the ride of a lifetime-I'd give up a ride on the shuttle for it.